Floyd Mayweather Vs. Oscar De La Hoya? Don’t Count On It Says Leonard Ellerbe: “Zero Interest In Doing That”

By: Hans Themistode

Oscar De La Hoya wasn’t kidding round when he mentioned he needed to make his return to the boxing ring. After spending a number of months getting his physique again into preventing form, the previous six-division world champion is lastly prepared to position his expertise again on show.

First up, is a September matchup towards former UFC champion, Vitor Belfort. Ought to issues go the way in which he’s anticipating, De La Hoya needs to maneuver into the subsequent part of his grasp plan.

“I wish to make the most important comeback in boxing historical past,” mentioned De La Hoya throughout an interview with Chris Mannix on DAZN. “I wish to get two of those fights down beneath my belt and get the timing prepared and every part, after which my third one, I wish to name out Floyd Mayweather.”

Whereas De La Hoya’s information could have made sports activities followers giddy, CEO of Mayweather Promotions in Leonard Ellerbe wasn’t amused within the slightest. As for many who are envisioning the 2 share the ring another time, Ellerbe shot down all hopes of that ever taking place.

“Completely not,” mentioned Ellerbe on The Jake Asman Present on SportsMap Radio. “It’ll by no means occur. There’s zero curiosity in doing that.”

Following a 2007 cut up choice loss by the hands of Mayweather, De La Hoya has all the time been acrimonious in direction of him. The “Golden Boy” would finish his profession one yr later as he suffered a one-sided eighth-round stoppage defeat by the hands of Manny Pacquiao. As for Mayweather, his profession would span one other decade. Alongside the way in which, he picked up win after win earlier than ending his profession with an undefeated document of 50-0.

Whereas the 2 haven’t crossed paths since, the pair have thrown verbal haymakers at each other by means of the media over time. Mayweather, 44, could have hung up his gloves for good in 2017 however as he put it, “I haven’t retired from making a living and entertaining the followers.” That leisure stretched to his most ring outing.

On June sixth, on the Onerous Rock Stadium in Miami, Florida, Mayweather took on social media star turned de-facto boxer, Logan Paul, in an eight-round exhibition. The prevailing thought course of heading in was that Mayweather would simply cease the YouTuber earlier than the ultimate bell. That, nonetheless, didn’t happen.

Contemplating that Mayweather seemed to be a shell of his as soon as dominant self, De La Hoya believes that the newly inducted Corridor of Famer now has a chip on his shoulder.

“I believe Floyd after that exhibition he did with Logan [Paul], I believe he seems like he has to show one thing as soon as once more contained in the boxing ring,” mentioned De La Hoya.

Whereas these across the boxing world have criticized Mayweather for his failure to get his man out of there and showing a step slower, he laughed all the way in which to the financial institution as he recorded over a million pay-per-view buys for his showdown towards Paul.

With the numbers that Mayweather vs. Paul gathered, Ellerbe merely believes that De La Hoya is trying to piggyback off his success.

“Oscar De La Hoya is simply making an attempt to make use of Floyd’s identify to construct some buzz about no matter he’s trying to do and no person’s actually paying him any consideration.”